Re: 2 pages of text on 1 sheet

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From: Suvajit Gupta
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 16:23

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In article <487@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> tim@gvl.unisys.com writes:
>	In trying to convert our site from Imagen based to Postscript
>I have encountered the need for a postscript program which I beleive has
>already been written.  Using the imprint command for the Imagen it is 
>possible to print two pages of text onto one sheet of paper by compressing
>the text size and placing them side by side on the paper in landscape mode.

There is a program called "enscript" available with Adobe Systems'
TRANSCRIPT package.  This converts plain text files into POSTSCRIPT format.
To print in landscape two-up mode, type:
	 enscript -2r filename

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From: sgupta@geo4.rdrc.rpi.edu (Suvajit Gupta)
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Subject: Re: 2 pages of text on 1 sheet
Keywords: Something like imprint -2 -O -l66
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Date: 12 Jan 90 16:23:58 GMT
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